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«December Nights» at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is a music festival which has been held at the museum annually since 1981. The idea for the event came from Svyatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 – 1997) and the director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Irina Alexandrovna Antonova
Since 1998 the festival has been named “Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights”, and the art director after Richter’s death has been the eminent musician Yuri Bashmet. During his time the festival has become world acclaimed and its program filled with an abundance of talent. The participants of the program are distinguished musicians, stage managers, artists and poets.
XXVIII International music festival “Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights” - “Dedicated to Turner – image and sound”.
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| Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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Published: 9 January 2008
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